Help! DH wants to buy me a dress

[TheGruffaloFish]

This one:www.agentprovocateur.com/eu_en/zeniya-dress-black

Apart from the fact that it's ridiculously expensive and I'm not sure we have enough to get us through the end of the year.
He is raving about this dress and how we should dress up for out 10th wedding anniversary when we go to see a ballet. Then maybe once the DC are a bit older we could to to a New Year's Gala dinner. Surely this is not something that one should wear to an opera or gala dinner? I find it a little revealing and really do not think I would be comfortable wearing it out and about. He says it's the perfect, cheeky, stylish dress a class above any others he has seen.

Help me find something to counter-suggest. Please. I'm no good with fashion or dress sense or style. I have a couple of dresses already that have been in the cupboard for 10 + years, they might still fit. He's never seen me in any of them!

Please tell me it isn't a matinee of the Nutcracker you're going too.

Your problems run deeper than the dress then OP.
Sounds to me like he's googled 'sexy dress' found that AP thing & thought that'll rekindle some sparks. Am I right?
Unfortunately he has gone about it all wrong, great that he's trying something But he's missed the mark.
Make a spending limit, go shopping together & you can also help him choose a new shirt, start by pointing out the sheer tight unbuttoned Male Dancer on Strictly styles & I'm sure he'll realise he's being a dick

Most people don't dress up for the ballet these days anymore than they do to go to the theatre.